[WikiEN-l] Spam and advertising dilemma

MacGyverMagic/Mgm macgyvermagic at gmail.com
Wed Jan 17 12:03:10 UTC 2007


I agree with Thomas, link internally rather than externally on lists.

Mgm


On 1/17/07, Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Yes, but the flaw in that reasoning is that lack of article does not
> > mean lack of notability. In most cases it's probably just that no one
> > can be bothered writing the article. I normally agree that it's much
> > preferable to link to the article about the website - but if there's
> > no article, do you redlink, weblink, or not link? The idea of creating
> > 12 stubs about websites of perhaps borderline notability makes my
> > stomach churn.
>
> If there is no article, but the website is notable, you have a choice
> of redlinking, or making a stub. Either is good.
>
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